10 Transit Ideas That Never Left the Drawing Board

Logosofia no Dia a Dia · Sep 17, 2026 · 25m

Daniel asked for ten micromobility and mass transit systems that never got off the ground — and the real question underneath: why do humans keep falling for absurd ways of moving around the planet? We sort the failures into three buckets: good ideas killed by politics, engineering that works but economics that don't, and the transparently ridiculous. Along the way: a Victorian glass arcade that almost ringed London, the Japanese bullet train link that farmers stopped for a generation, and the electric tricycle that put Britain's greatest electronics mind at eye level with a truck's exhaust…